Collections
From Magna Doodle, View Master, Rubik’s Cube and Chutes and Ladders to Barbie dolls and Star Wars action figures, Please Touch Museum’s Collections feature over 12,500 items—primarily toys manufactured after 1945—that are an integral part of the Please Touch Museum experience. All items in the museum’s collection are a developmentally appropriate means for interpreting the history of child life. The collections are used both in exhibits throughout the gallery floor, and as part of the museum’s educational programs.
Toys guide play, engender creativity and cultivate the imagination, while offering children ways to develop their brain power in strategic and critical thinking…and toys help children in all the stages of play: social/emotional, physical, cognitive and language. Please Touch Museum is a child’s first experience with a museum. With interest in what children learn at Please Touch, they often become life-long collectors and museum visitors.